Jenni Kemarre Martiniello

2019, hot blown glass with canes
38 x 60 x 25 cm

Place Sky Breath
On exhibition at Paul Johnstone Gallery

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY FIONA MORRISON

The Feather Nest Sky is a new series of works that is inspired by the diverse forms and colours of native Australian birds’ feathers, and the sometimes neat sometimes messy construction of their nests against the sky at various times of the day — for example the blues of mid morning, reds of sunset, subtle golds and pinks of sunrise. As with the Feather Nest Sky works, the keys to the Seed & Stamen series is colour, form, place and movement. In this instance is it the delicate and ephemeral forms of native blossom seeds and stamens as blown by wind into air, and as they settle onto the moving surfaces of water in nearby creeks and waterholes. The Spill Basket also refers to the spill of natural elements into creeks and their haphazard collisions and movements as they move downstream.

– JENNI KEMARRE MARTINIELLO